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| | We generally meet monthly for technical presentations (2nd Thursday of the month, 6 pm, virtual), and monthly for socializing (varies). We no longer meet monthly for lunches, if you are interested in reviving this tradition please [http://k-lug.org/About contact an officer]. |
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| === Social #2: Saturday October 26th ===
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| Creative Reuse build day at the Rabbit Hole.
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| They're going to undertake several re-use activities. Planned are:
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| -Junk bots creation
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| -Construction of a secret door for the server room, with a bookcase and a fire alarm door pull
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| -Kalidescopes using some glass and mirrors
| | === Outdoor Social: Saturday April 25 === |
| | In celebration of [https://nationalkitemonth.org/ National Kite Month], bring your kites and come join us as we try to fly them. |
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| Then they're going to make a stop action video contest submission, this may happen after the 26th due to time constraints.
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| The Instructables general instructions are here: http://www.instructables.com/community/October-2013-Build-Night-Creative-Reuse/ .
| | Location: [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Redwood+Ln+SW,+Rochester,+MN+55902/@43.989365,-92.4843012,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x87f758cbe6ddd805:0xcbd56f452d52bbef That park by Steve Fox's house], officially known as Pine Ridge Estates Park, on Redwood Lane SW. |
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| We're meeting at the Toymakers hacker/maker space again. http://tymkrs.com/rabbithole/
| | This park has a nice playground for the littles, picnic tables, and room to fly kites, as well as usually being unpopulated. The lack of trees and being on top of a hill mean it's pretty bug free (not that we should hopefully have to worry about that in April) even when there's not enough breeze to fly the kites. |
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| 547 Northern Heights Dr NE
| | Please bring your family and friends who might want to hang out. Bring your own kites. If you don't want to sit at the picnic tables or on the playground equipment, bring your own folding chair. And bring your own beverage. Since it's April, we're skipping the traditional ice cream. |
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| Rochester MN 55906
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| Start time is 8 am, but since it's an all day/1 day event for the build, they expect people to come and go throughout the day as their schedule permits.
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| | === Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 28th === |
| | 6:00 - 7:30 pm |
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| If you want to play at the Rabbit Hole on Friday night October 25th too, you can take a pumpkin <strike>(one you bought at Northwoods Orchard?)</strike> for soldering pumpkin lights and pumpkin carving night. Bring your own pumpkin and knife. Need to learn to solder? This will be a good night for that, bring your own kit or talk to the Toymakers in advance about other potential options (candle flicker simulator). I'm assuming this one is 6 pm. They typically order cheap pizza and pop, bring your $5 to pitch in if you want to partake.
| | Summit Pointe Park, in NW Rochester. [https://k-lug.org/images/3/38/Summit_Pointe_Park_parking_and_trash_cleanup_boundaries.jpg Park on Shetland Drive NW, and observe the north/south boundaries in the linked map]. |
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| | Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. Some pond shoreline. Unlike our fall CITOs, in the spring we've got plenty of daylight. |
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| | As usual we are [https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCBM2PG teaming up with the geocachers] to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage. |
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| For anyone who haven't been there before, their house is on the north side of the road up a steep and twisted driveway; park on the road with a parking brake. Walk up the driveway, <strike> up the steps, and ring the doorbell. </strike> into the open garage door, and into the house without needing to ring the doorbell.
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| | === Virtual Social: Thursday May 14th === |
| | 6 pm |
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| | Meeting link here eventually. |
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| === Planned Technical Meeting: Thursday November 14th ===
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| Dennis DeLorme
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| AATiny remote project, Dennis has provided the following description.
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| | We're planning pickleball, and a geocaching hike on a new trail at Northern Heights Park (start on the WSW side and walk clockwise). |
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| "Many of you know the Ardunio as an easy to use hardware and software development system for the ATmega328 microcontroller. For many projects the Ardunio board may be too expensive to dedicate to a project. There are smaller, cheaper ATmega328 boards that can be used if not all the options of the full Arduino board are needed.
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| But what if that is still too expensive for a very simple project? The Ardunio system can be used to develop code and program smaller Atmel chips like the ATtiny84A and ATtiny85 chips. The ATtiny84A has 14 pins, the ATtiny85 has 8 pins. The chips have a subset of the features of the ATmega328, for example only 8K of flash and 512 bytes of ram. They are less than $2 in small quantity and include an internal oscillator, so minimal external parts are required.
| | === Old News Items === |
| | | See the [[OldNews]] page. |
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| http://www.atmel.com/Images/doc8183.pdf
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| http://www.atmel.com/Images/Atmel-2586-AVR-8-bit-Microcontroller-ATtiny25-ATtiny45-ATtiny85_Datasheet.pdf
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| To use the the Arduino environment some addition files need to be downloaded and added to the sketchbook to describe the chips to the compiler and loader. Then the code can be written and the chip programed with just a few extra mouse clicks.
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| I will show how to set up the environment for the ATtiny84A and ATtiny85. After that we will go through a project to use the ATtiny85 to decode an IR remote control and control a couple of output pins."
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| 6 pm, in or near RCTC Heintz Center's HA107.
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| [http://www.roch.edu/html-spectrum/getting_to_ucr.html Directions to Campus]
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| [http://www.rctc.edu/campustour/maps/heintzA.html Heintz Center Building Map]
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| === Lunch: Thursday November 21st === | |
| 11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
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| === Planned Social: November TBD ===
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| Ideas can be found [http://www.k-lug.org/SocialMeeting here] or invent your own. What would you like to do? Tell Tim or Tina. We've got lots of potential indoor activities at the bottom of this page, speak up if you have preferences.
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| === Lunch: Thursday December 19th ===
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| 11:30 am, Apache Mall food court, near B&N.
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| === Planned Social/"Technical Meeting": December TBD ===
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| What geeky hanging out activity do we want to do together this year? Last year we went to Hobby Gobblins, and I think they've managed to stay in business; want to go there again? Tina and Tim will work on trying to get this scheduled there.
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| === Planned Technical Meeting: January 2014 TBD ===
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| Speaker needed, please let Tim or Tina know if you're willing to volunteer. Willing to present but want to know what people have expressed interest in? Check out our [http://www.k-lug.org/index.php?title=Meetings&action=submit#Requested_topics_list requested topics] page.
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| === Planned Technical Meeting: March or later, 2013 ===
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| Oculus Rift, "the first truly immersive virtual reality headset for video games"
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| http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-step-into-the-game
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| Peter Shabino
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| === Planned Socials: Fall or winter ===
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| -Jim Henderson, "Silicon Valley" documentary
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| -Children's Museum. Don't have a kid and feel akward about wandering around to check the place out without one? This is your chance, we'll have at least one coming with the group to salve any feelings of stalking stranger's children.
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| -Rock climbing at Prairie Walls before they take down the sign we constructed for the Red Bull Creation contest.
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| -Liquid nitrogen ice cream. This needs a non-Tina organizer. Dennis DeLorme has 2 recipes. We need safety equipment and someone trained enough to keep us from freezing ourselves.
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| -MAME/foosball/ping pong at Tim Massaro's.
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| -Parallax build contest ~Christmas
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| === Upcoming Meeting Crisis! ===
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| Well, not really a crisis, but we do need some meeting topics (& speakers) for 2013. We'd like to know what you want to see and hear about. Please email Tina or Tim with suggestions for topics. Should we run some previous sessions again (maybe something you really wanted to see but missed out on)? What type of topics are good, what type are bad? Also see this page for a list of suggested topics http://www.k-lug.org/Meetings
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| === Old News Items ===
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| See the [[OldNews]] page.
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We can use presentations for upcoming meetings, please see a list of ideas if you're willing but lacking a topic.
LUG News
We generally meet monthly for technical presentations (2nd Thursday of the month, 6 pm, virtual), and monthly for socializing (varies). We no longer meet monthly for lunches, if you are interested in reviving this tradition please contact an officer.
Outdoor Social: Saturday April 25
In celebration of National Kite Month, bring your kites and come join us as we try to fly them.
Saturday April 25th
2 pm
Location: That park by Steve Fox's house, officially known as Pine Ridge Estates Park, on Redwood Lane SW.
This park has a nice playground for the littles, picnic tables, and room to fly kites, as well as usually being unpopulated. The lack of trees and being on top of a hill mean it's pretty bug free (not that we should hopefully have to worry about that in April) even when there's not enough breeze to fly the kites.
Please bring your family and friends who might want to hang out. Bring your own kites. If you don't want to sit at the picnic tables or on the playground equipment, bring your own folding chair. And bring your own beverage. Since it's April, we're skipping the traditional ice cream.
Litter Bit Better in-person social (outside), Tuesday April 28th
6:00 - 7:30 pm
Summit Pointe Park, in NW Rochester. Park on Shetland Drive NW, and observe the north/south boundaries in the linked map.
Bags provided. You bring your own gloves, grabbers, and sense of civic duty. Some pond shoreline. Unlike our fall CITOs, in the spring we've got plenty of daylight.
As usual we are teaming up with the geocachers to avoid being overwhelmed by garbage.
Virtual Social: Thursday May 14th
6 pm
Meeting link here eventually.
Upcoming Outdoor Socials TBD
We're planning pickleball, and a geocaching hike on a new trail at Northern Heights Park (start on the WSW side and walk clockwise).
Old News Items
See the OldNews page.
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